Choctaw/Chickasaw here. It feels good to finally be able to connect to my roots. The truth has been hidden far too long. Peace to all indigenous tribes!
MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS CHICKASAW...MY DAD WAS VERY PROUD OF HIS HERITAGE AND SO AM I. I CANNOT CLAIM THE CULTURE AS I WAS NOT RAISED TO IT. SOME OF MY BEDT CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ARE OF MY GRANDMOTHER AND I STTING ON H CEDAR CHEST WHILE SHE TOLD ME ABOUT GROWING UP IN ADAIR INDIAN COUNTRY, OK. I AM 68 AND STILL HAVE NO WORDS TO EXPRESS HOW MUCH I MISS HER. THANK YOU FOR THIS.
My great-grandmother was choctaw and African American. I remember hearing these types of songs coming from her room and used to wonder what it was she was doing.. a beautiful sound!
My great grandmother was born in "indian territory" so says her birth certificate...and my mother born in Chickasha OK. They had settled on the banks of the Red River then had a farm just north. I'm so proud of this heritage even if I am so far removed. There is something within me, a soul knowledge, that embraces all my great grandfather thought me when I was little. Respect? Integrity? It takes hold and I'm so proud to see it continue on in my children and grandchildren. ♡
I'm half Choctaw and Cherokee but about 25% Blackfoot so I got family that are members of 3 different tribes like my mom I'm a member of Choctaw nation
A long long time ago my dad showed me our family tree and i was proud to learn that i was part Chickasaw and Ive been listening to many native American songs to help soothe my spirit.
My great grandmother was full blooded Chickasaw. I have a picture of her. So proud to have her in my lineage. My heart beats with pride to have Chickasaw blood running in my veins ..
My great grandmother grandmother Viola on my paternal side was full blooded Chickasaw. Proud granddaughter here. Love and peace to all my long lost loved ones.
I was told by my mother and my grandmother that my great grandmother was full-blooded Choctaw/Chickasaw. That makes grandma 1/2 and mom 1/4 and me 1/8. I'm just recently studying and learning about my Native American heritage.
I am born native Hawaiian from Hawai'i. i have a long family royalty here. whats special i found out i have some choctaw blood from my foreign side family..
I know I’m mainly white. But I am very proud to be Choctaw native. I know my ancestors would be happy to hear their culture. My dad always taught me the culture and the history even down to where the tribes come from. No schools to that.
I'm descended from the Pickens and McMillan families of the Chickasaw Nation! These are my family singing! That is crazy!! Thank you for sharing these wonderful songs and including information about the Album!
Choctaw are a beautiful and proud people. You have to be no less than 50% Choctaw to be considered Choctaw. My father is half and I am a quarter and I live in Canada where Choctaw has no land and no rights. But still I know who I am.
TaShawna Williams if you are native you are native. BQ is a naholo term. Please open your eyes to the people and not the color of their skin, but what runs through, underneath it. Chahta sia hoke.
Chelle Green I do - I do my dear relative. So did you grow up traditionally if so or no - are you aware of which iska your people are from? Do you speak the language do you know any hand talk? Please don't mind my enthusiasm. :) I did not grow up traditionally, however, I didn't let that stop my love for my people our culture. Later as a very young adult I was reunited with family and I grew to learn more of what it means to be Native. I now proudly share it. I am also glad to know that all NDN'z rez or non rez can take pride in our ancestry. We are all relatives! Chatah hapia hoke! (Chahta Pride)! Aho! :)
Like you,I didn't get the joy of growing up with my Native ancestors. I have traced my English side all the way to the 1300's but there is no census info on the Choctaw,of course. :( I was reunited with my grandmother in recent years and look to learn as much as i can from her stories. I have always felt drawn to my roots,and find myself out by the campfires and navigating through the woods every chance i get,i play drums and sing. I have no doubt that the native blood in my veins is stronger than the rest,as i just feel it in my spirit. Please,i would LOVE to learn anything and everything you are willing to share with me! I will inbox you my email,and we can go from there!
Jack kaden As someone with both Irish and Choctaw ancestors, This means a lot to know that the people of Eire still remember. Yakoke agus go raibh maith agat.
The Choctaw Nation sent us what they did not in an any way have without a seconds thought and cost their own Loved ones Lives for a nation they had only heard the whisper of those who were as brutalised as them.Eire will always be their home also.so many of us owe them or Lives.
I have a great or great-great ancestor on my mother's side that is Choctaw. Every now and then, I come and listen to some of this to show respect for her.
My Grandma was of Chickasaw Heritage. She taught me to do what I said I was going to do. I had a toothache and she told me to put some stones in a cloth and tie it up. Then I had to turn around three times.
I love this traditional music of my people and ancestors! Although I hear this music all the time everywhere in my family, I love it still and it still makes me so happy even though I hear it all the time!
I just found out my grandfather who was chocktaw passed away 2 years ago and his daughter kept it silent from my family I haven't seen him since I was 18 I'm 29 now his daughter hated me for the fact he was not my blood but treated me and adopted me as one of his own and gave me the name Wolfman and I will keep on remembering him by all the times that I was with him
Thank you kindly for sharing. Lovely song. Very catchy. My great grandmother 1862/1902 full Cherokee I know would enjoy singing this as well... Donald Suiters
What I understand the people singing are descendants of the Pickens family .. which is my family so beautiful and brings back beautiful memories of the little time I got to spend with them
I'm Indian enough to be registered by the government as an Indian, and I'm on the rolls of the choctaw tribe. Unfortunately, I'm only a 32nd and not much Indian was passed down to me through my mother due to boarding schools and my great grandparents choosing jehovah's witness over their heritage. So I'm making the journey to relearn what my ancestors weren't able to teach me, I receive benefits through the tribe, I work for them, and they consider me one of their own technically, and I plan to attend powwows as much as I can after covid. I'm learning the language in college rn, but unfortunately I'm still trying to learn the culture from a personal perspective, you can only be so much of a people learning their beliefs and traditions through books. And our people shared these things not through books, but through personal connections with others. Even though I didn't have a mother or uncle to teach me these ways, I feel I owe it to my ancestors and my tribe to try, and reclaim in myself what invaders had tried to, and ultimately succeeded in taking from them. I feel music like this gives me a thread to grasp at when feeling the soul of my ancestors. It makes me feel closer to them. To anyone who has read this, Yakoke. Chi pesa la chike.
my great grandfather from Mississippi, Chectan Choctaw Wallace, his wife a chickasaw/creek named Savania, its in my spirit and dna, also got german and swiss, My father brought me up with native rules about life , love and honor both god and family and earth, aho!hoka hey nya weh, stay strong
As a Cajun with some Chickasaw ancestors, I can appreciate how this music and the hospitable attitude of the Chickasaws influenced the music and attitudes of my Cajun French ancestors
Halito, I am Talhako (Gray Eagle) a direct lineal descendant of the Oklafalaya (Long People) Six Town Clan, in The Northwest District under Mingo, Greenwood Leflore. Prior to removal in 1830.
Go raibh mat agut from the peoples of Eire to a nation who when they had nothing sent money to buy wheat which saved thousands of lives during our worst Famine,the people of the Choctaw nation can always consider Eire a place of sanctuary & welcome my people who will never forget the suffering they endured to alleviate a people that they only knew were forced off the land & marched to coffin ships or died eating grass in the fields. Many of us including me owe you our very lives,Undefeated !!
My grandfather was pure native so at the moment I am pretty much 25% native american and idk this music calls to me. In a way nothing else in the world can this kind of music makes me look around and appreciate what's around me
i come from the hole in the ground where all natives come from this place is from the begain we have always been here this our land i have walk in my peoples ( family ) foot prints in stone in front of the cave and where the river of life flows to all waters i am cherokee paint clan
Choctaw/Chickasaw here. It feels good to finally be able to connect to my roots. The truth has been hidden far too long. Peace to all indigenous tribes!
Ireland will always remember what the Choctaw did for us thank you
Israelites praising the Most High "Great Spirit"
MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS CHICKASAW...MY DAD WAS VERY PROUD OF HIS HERITAGE AND SO AM I. I CANNOT CLAIM THE CULTURE AS I WAS NOT RAISED TO IT. SOME OF MY BEDT CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ARE OF MY GRANDMOTHER AND I STTING ON H CEDAR CHEST WHILE SHE TOLD ME ABOUT GROWING UP IN ADAIR INDIAN COUNTRY, OK. I AM 68 AND STILL HAVE NO WORDS TO EXPRESS HOW MUCH I MISS HER. THANK YOU FOR THIS.
My great-grandmother was choctaw and African American. I remember hearing these types of songs coming from her room and used to wonder what it was she was doing.. a beautiful sound!
My grandfather was Chickasaw and African.
I am ten years old and I shake cans at every
Stomp dance I am good at shaking cans to I made my cans
Crazy how you’re now 19. Halito/Chokma!
@@CadenceMinnick22❤
I'm proud to be Choctaw Chickasaw. I love this song.
Me too! As a person who is Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Seminole, I'm incredibly proud :)
My great grandmother was born in "indian territory" so says her birth certificate...and my mother born in Chickasha OK. They had settled on the banks of the Red River then had a farm just north.
I'm so proud of this heritage even if I am so far removed. There is something within me, a soul knowledge, that embraces all my great grandfather thought me when I was little. Respect? Integrity? It takes hold and I'm so proud to see it continue on in my children and grandchildren. ♡
@@harleewalker1156 same but my mother was full blooded Choctaw Cherokee Blackfeet and Lakota
Respect from Ireland & thank you ❤
Thank you ❤
My tribes :') I love hearing music from my culture. It actually bring tears to my eyes.
I'm half Choctaw and Cherokee but about 25% Blackfoot so I got family that are members of 3 different tribes like my mom I'm a member of Choctaw nation
Commi Simzz me too
💕💗
We are one brother
Me too
Halito,.. representing Mississippi and Oklahoma Chahta, not quite full blood .. 3/4. Yakoke for the share!! Ahullo! Chi'pisa^la'chike^
My Heritage. My Grandmother is Choctaw. And not the fake type.. Im proud the share learn and grow..
If you can direct me to any other Choctaw music or prayers I would be most grateful!
A long long time ago my dad showed me our family tree and i was proud to learn that i was part Chickasaw and Ive been listening to many native American songs to help soothe my spirit.
My great grandmother was full blooded Chickasaw. I have a picture of her. So proud to have her in my lineage. My heart beats with pride to have Chickasaw blood running in my veins ..
My great grandmother grandmother Viola on my paternal side was full blooded Chickasaw. Proud granddaughter here. Love and peace to all my long lost loved ones.
I was told by my mother and my grandmother that my great grandmother was full-blooded Choctaw/Chickasaw. That makes grandma 1/2 and mom 1/4 and me 1/8. I'm just recently studying and learning about my Native American heritage.
I am born native Hawaiian from Hawai'i. i have a long family royalty here. whats special i found out i have some choctaw blood from my foreign side family..
I know I’m mainly white. But I am very proud to be Choctaw native. I know my ancestors would be happy to hear their culture. My dad always taught me the culture and the history even down to where the tribes come from. No schools to that.
I'm descended from the Pickens and McMillan families of the Chickasaw Nation! These are my family singing! That is crazy!! Thank you for sharing these wonderful songs and including information about the Album!
From The Pickens and Burris and Hensley families! 😊
Love my peoples and my tribe love hearing my peoples music 😍😍😍😍😍
Choctaw are a beautiful and proud people. You have to be no less than 50% Choctaw to be considered Choctaw. My father is half and I am a quarter and I live in Canada where Choctaw has no land and no rights. But still I know who I am.
Gotta get to Oklahoma where you can get benefits from Choctaw like free eduation.
TaShawna Williams I am 50.9% Choctaw and Cherokee
TaShawna Williams if you are native you are native. BQ is a naholo term. Please open your eyes to the people and not the color of their skin, but what runs through, underneath it. Chahta sia hoke.
@Crystal S my thoughts exactly.
TaShawna Williams I have to be more than 50%? That’s not fair
For some reason this music gives me chilly bumps all over my body, but at the same time creates a inner fire in my chest. I Love this music.
I thought it was just me but it gives me major energy
Proud CHOCTAW WARRIOR born on the rez but far from our people now. Looking forward to bringing my son to our peoples home
Finally something not Cherokee or osage Beautiful Chickasaw Music from a Chickasaw Like me
Scottish Chickasaw, of Appalachia' can't sleep needed to feel this.
You wouldnt know by looking at me but I'm a large portion choctaw and the pride in the roots runs very deep throughout the generations
My great great grandfather was cubby love
Greetings to our tribal brethren across the ocean; keep the fight up! One of the few races on earth that are an equal of the Irish!
Although I am not Native American. So great hearing the music of Native Americans.
I am Choctaw/Chickasaw...this song stirs my soul in a way I cannot even explain
I am too! Also, my grandfather's last name was Green and he was Chickasaw. Could you and I be related?
Halito, Chatah Siah!
Halito my Brother!!!!! And proud I see! :D And Eagle,my married name is Green. So we may be related by marriage,but I will accept that if you will! :P
Chelle Green I do - I do my dear relative. So did you grow up traditionally if so or no - are you aware of which iska your people are from? Do you speak the language do you know any hand talk? Please don't mind my enthusiasm. :)
I did not grow up traditionally, however, I didn't let that stop my love for my people our culture. Later as a very young adult I was reunited with family and I grew to learn more of what it means to be Native. I now proudly share it. I am also glad to know that all NDN'z rez or non rez can take pride in our ancestry. We are all relatives! Chatah hapia hoke! (Chahta Pride)! Aho! :)
Like you,I didn't get the joy of growing up with my Native ancestors. I have traced my English side all the way to the 1300's but there is no census info on the Choctaw,of course. :( I was reunited with my grandmother in recent years and look to learn as much as i can from her stories. I have always felt drawn to my roots,and find myself out by the campfires and navigating through the woods every chance i get,i play drums and sing. I have no doubt that the native blood in my veins is stronger than the rest,as i just feel it in my spirit. Please,i would LOVE to learn anything and everything you are willing to share with me! I will inbox you my email,and we can go from there!
Thanks to my Chickasaw ancestors, beautiful song.
I am proud to be part Choctaw
beautiful. sounds like the rythms of how Hawaiians sing. i am native hawaiian and i also have choctaw blood
Jack kaden As someone with both Irish and Choctaw ancestors, This means a lot to know that the people of Eire still remember. Yakoke agus go raibh maith agat.
The Choctaw Nation sent us what they did not in an any way have without a seconds thought and cost their own Loved ones Lives for a nation they had only heard the whisper of those who were as brutalised as them.Eire will always be their home also.so many of us owe them or Lives.
Brother, Spirit has brought our people’s together for a purpose... I am sure of it...
I have a great or great-great ancestor on my mother's side that is Choctaw. Every now and then, I come and listen to some of this to show respect for her.
We're were born in st.louis Mo. to be around and have some much 4 my blood line
My Grandma was of Chickasaw Heritage. She taught me to do what I said I was going to do. I had a toothache and she told me to put some stones in a cloth and tie it up. Then I had to turn around three times.
I love this traditional music of my people and ancestors! Although I hear this music all the time everywhere in my family, I love it still and it still makes me so happy even though I hear it all the time!
I just found out my grandfather who was chocktaw passed away 2 years ago and his daughter kept it silent from my family I haven't seen him since I was 18 I'm 29 now his daughter hated me for the fact he was not my blood but treated me and adopted me as one of his own and gave me the name Wolfman and I will keep on remembering him by all the times that I was with him
I'm 1/4 Choctaw according to the Nation and this is so calming, especially since my dad passed on to the spirit world
Thank you kindly for sharing.
Lovely song. Very catchy. My great grandmother 1862/1902 full Cherokee I know would enjoy singing this as well...
Donald Suiters
I have choctaw indian in my blood from my moms side. Proud to have that in my ancestry
What I understand the people singing are descendants of the Pickens family .. which is my family so beautiful and brings back beautiful memories of the little time I got to spend with them
Long live the Choctaw people!! Ancestors we see you!!
My people Chickasaw. Love my heritage
Yakoke for remembering brother!
My tribe. I Love you over The Moon.
I'm Indian enough to be registered by the government as an Indian, and I'm on the rolls of the choctaw tribe. Unfortunately, I'm only a 32nd and not much Indian was passed down to me through my mother due to boarding schools and my great grandparents choosing jehovah's witness over their heritage. So I'm making the journey to relearn what my ancestors weren't able to teach me, I receive benefits through the tribe, I work for them, and they consider me one of their own technically, and I plan to attend powwows as much as I can after covid. I'm learning the language in college rn, but unfortunately I'm still trying to learn the culture from a personal perspective, you can only be so much of a people learning their beliefs and traditions through books. And our people shared these things not through books, but through personal connections with others. Even though I didn't have a mother or uncle to teach me these ways, I feel I owe it to my ancestors and my tribe to try, and reclaim in myself what invaders had tried to, and ultimately succeeded in taking from them. I feel music like this gives me a thread to grasp at when feeling the soul of my ancestors. It makes me feel closer to them. To anyone who has read this, Yakoke. Chi pesa la chike.
Chahta Sia Hoke! ♥️
Thank you for posting I love hearing my tribes beautiful music.
my great grandfather from Mississippi, Chectan Choctaw Wallace, his wife a chickasaw/creek named Savania, its in my spirit and dna, also got german and swiss, My father brought me up with native rules about life , love and honor both god and family and earth, aho!hoka hey nya weh, stay strong
Hi my name is Ryan half Chickasaw I'm a tribal citizen much love from sour lake tx.
This brings me back to my youth. We have forgotten our natural ways and it has been time to get back home
This makes me think of my nana, and the church she used to go to. I regret not going hardly
My tribe!
janice Rigsbee - Thank you & your tribe saved loads of my ancestors in Ireland with generosity it never be forgetting ❤
My people I love you so much
. It's surreal hearing this, thank you for posting ♥️
As a Cajun with some Chickasaw ancestors, I can appreciate how this music and the hospitable attitude of the Chickasaws influenced the music and attitudes of my Cajun French ancestors
beautiful
My Father.... RIP Robert lee Sheppard.. Choctaw
Wish our tribal music was on Spotify
Same!
Halito, I am Talhako (Gray Eagle) a direct lineal descendant of the Oklafalaya (Long People) Six Town Clan, in The Northwest District under Mingo, Greenwood Leflore. Prior to removal in 1830.
I am also a direct descendant of Shumaka
Go raibh mat agut from the peoples of Eire to a nation who when they had nothing sent money to buy wheat which saved thousands of lives during our worst Famine,the people of the Choctaw nation can always consider Eire a place of sanctuary & welcome my people who will never forget the suffering they endured to alleviate a people that they only knew were forced off the land & marched to coffin ships or died eating grass in the fields. Many of us including me owe you our very lives,Undefeated !!
Yakoke for posting this ❤️❤️
I see Buster Ned in picture I think with big tall hat
Halito! good song Bear. keep kickin em out chata.
Chokma
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️My Blood❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It may be a small part of my blood. But i am proud of my Choctaw ancestry.
I'm so proud to be 12.5% Mississippi Choctaw
I'm 50% Choctaw so little cause of me being 50% Cherokee
i am born Hawaiian on the islands, found out i have some choctaw blood also..
I'm a decendant of I hunta Pickens.
As a Choctaw for those who didn't know Choctaw Chickasaws Creeks Cherokees and Seminoles were all one big tribe called the Mississippian People
My grandfather was pure native so at the moment I am pretty much 25% native american and idk this music calls to me. In a way nothing else in the world can this kind of music makes me look around and appreciate what's around me
I am 25% chickasaw to those wondering
Chickasa Poya!
im chickasaw also
Halito!
Chahta sia ish hattack lusa.
Chahta sia hoke. 🦅👊🏼
Sounds like the foundation of Blues music
💜💜💜
My grandfathers mother was apparently “native” and these songs bring me to tears
is there a translation to this beauty?
💜💜
Chickasha saya
Unconquered
Unconquerable
(:
These are all Choctaw songs except the one Chickasaw Hard Fish Dance
halito am akana, chim achukma?
Chukma fena ishnanu
Anompa chickashanompa
achukma vm akana
Vm achukma hoke. Ishnaako?
A achimachokma yakoke nakfi
Where can you find this on CD?
Hello
Any full blood Choctaws here?
Probably not you'll likely just find white people with 1/8th or 1/16th
Chickasaw citizen
Chickshashaa
I was wondering how I can get a copy of this and if it is in a CD.
Im trying find this cd for my husband Adris Mose is his grandpa
Chokkma
i come from the hole in the ground where all natives come from this place is from the begain we have always been here this our land i have walk in my peoples ( family ) foot prints in stone in front of the cave and where the river of life flows to all waters i am cherokee paint clan
runingblackbear mom just taught me nanih waiya
Oh no. This is the man who called me a fake Catawba. I am Catawba, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Cherokee.
Sa hochifo ut my name is Justin
What are they saying please someone translate my lost native tongue to understand to me....please
choctaw 😂 Ʋʋ
Chata sia hoke
This is our war song. It's time to make war
The sound of community in this sounds beautiful. I'm so sorry this was destroyed by the white man.
had it been destroyed it wouldnt be here today. please acknowledge the fact that we are still here and we are still a thriving people.